books.google.com - Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista PiranesiEdward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire.html?id=9xriVJrENcMC&q=human&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged)